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i'm a series of numbers floating in an everlasting void. he/him | greater than or equal to 30

[tpwrtrmnky]

Imagine you're the head of the center for treating Boneitis in your country. There are many observational studies that show Bone Unhurting Juice helps with Boneitis, but you only hand out Bone Unhurting Juice after a screening process where you deprive the patients of calcium.

You then publish research.

Your research, performed exclusively within your jurisdiction, claims that patients receiving Bone Unhurting Juice still suffer from osteoporosis, have many different health issues associated with calcium deprivation, and your conclusion is that you've revealed a flaw in Bone Unhurting Juice research.

Except… You're the one giving the patients osteoporosis.

You are accepted as a leading voice of reason by the Association for Concerned Parents of Boneitis Fakers. Countries condemned for their treatment of Boneitis patients flock to your research.

The research where you admit that your approach to Boneitis treatment is giving patients osteoporosis.

There continues to be no evidence to suggest that calcium deprivation does ANYTHING to benefit Boneitis patients. You make the calcium deprivation more intense because of your publications.

Mengele comparisons are not just appropriate at this point, they are necessary. You should not be in the position of authority that you have, because you are actively harming your patients.

Actual Boneitis experts in your country who offer Boneitis treatment without calcium deprivation get shut down because you say they're being irresponsible.

You keep shitting out more and more self-incriminating research.

Opinion piece writers call your critics "extreme" and "lacking nuance."

Your critics are rightly pointing out that you are a hack elevated to the position of an unaccountable petty tyrant held to no standards, allowed to scrutinize others from a position of unearned authority.

Most of your critics are your patients.

You should resign. You do not.

This makes you evil.

This post is about the gatekeeping model of trans healthcare.

[redstonedust]

its fun to remember we can use the big text if we want. bonjour motherfuckers. i'm posting loud as hell now.

[monstersovka]

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[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[chimaerakitten]

> nice early summer evening

> put on tan undershirt

> put on green linen pants

> grab cute new Aloha-print button down

> look in mirror

>

[vassraptor]

i have decided that care bears are like puritans

[vassraptor]

hortatory names

[vassraptor]

cheer bear

healthy heart bear

polite panda

faith bear

hope bear

charity bear

fly-fornication bear

praise-god bearbone

[abwwia]

Hilma af Klint - Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 9, 1915

[wizardarchetypes]

anyway every time i post about ocd people start tagging the post like "wait this isn't normal?" and i always like to remind people that intrusive thoughts are normal. pretty much everyone experiences them. "what if i jumped off this balcony?" "what if i crashed my car right now for no reason?" "what if i yelled a curse word in the middle of this wedding?" everyone thinks these things from time to time. it's disordered thinking when the distress starts becoming intolerable.

"am i normal" is not as helpful question to ask as "are intrusive thoughts causing me frequent distress?" and "would my life be better if i could find a way to feel less distress/learn to tolerate the distress?"

millions and millions of people have ocd. having ocd is normal. you're normal. but what if you could feel better? what if living everyday in your own mind and body could be tolerable? is that something you want? need? these are questions to ask.

[retquits]

reclaiming character designs from an old project ☕

[33v0]

[zagzie]

this is the best tag I’ve ever gotten in my notifs actually

[badndngirl]

just write a shitty poem, what do you have to lose

[badndngirl]

To everyone reblogging this and saying something like “my dignity,” may I submit this very good and accurate tweet

[st-dionysus]

Bitch we're ALL the problematic transsexual you were warned about via call out posts and news articles. Do not betray your siblings in the struggle, we are all next.

[st-dionysus]

"But what if they did x, y, and/or z! They need to be held accountable!"

I means it's honestly unlikely they did x, y, and/or z. Most call out posts are just bullshit lies or so taken out of context that they're just as fraudulent as a bullshit lie.

However, if they did? A callout post is useless. It's utterly pointless.

A callout post does nothing but:

Isolate the supposed perpetrator, making it impossible for them to stay in a community that would otherwise be able to go "Hey bro/sis/sib, that was fucked, let's talk about it and fix it".

Puts a spotlight on the possible victim that prevents them from recovery or healing.

Creates drama that creates damage for all parties.

And that's if their was any truth in the post.

A callout post that's just a bunch of garbage though? That:

Isolates the victim of the slander, leaving them volunrable to attacks and harassment

Feeds into transphobia both generalized and specific to the victim of slander

Creates infighting, gatekeeping, and policement of the community

Often forces people who had nothing to do with the initial drama to take part in a now ever delevoping drama, which creates more callout posts, more slander, more harrasment, and more attacks on community members. Most often effecting the most marginalized members of out community.

Forces people to view content that is often triggering and demands that they make a moral statement about it, while trying to process or cope with the content.

Creates room for Terfs, tehms, radfems, and transphobes of all brands, to stick their ugly heads in and go "see, I was right about the trans cult, do you see what monsters they are".

There is never a valid reason for a callout post. There is no callout post that has ever successfully "held someone accountable for their actions" and there is no callout post that has not done damage to our community.

[tpwrtrmnky]

A lot of the time when I point out that some right-wing policy is proven to not achieve the thing it purports to have as a goal, people rightly point out that the real goal is the negative outcomes that do happen.

Which is correct!

But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.

That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.

This has to be ongoing work because someone new has their political awakening every day. Every day, someone needs to learn that the right wing position is wrong on all levels, not just the obvious ones.

[realflaminglily]

there will be people out there who still think the war on drugs (as the absolute first thing that comes to mind) is a legitimate social cause against an antisocial blight on society. if you come out the gate with (the very true statement) that it's actually been a deliberate campaign to target minorities and other undesirable groups to the ruling class, you're going to sound like a clueless conspiracy nut

whereas if you come with a very defensible, statistically supported point of "it doesn't work and has never worked" you can open the door to the follow up question of "why did the government do it in the first place, and (in many cases) why are they still doing it?"

[tpwrtrmnky]

This, exactly.

The play is to:

Demonstrate that the policy doesn't work

Demonstrate that the people enforcing the policy have everything they need to know it doesn't work

Provide the context of what the policy achieves in the absence of its "intended" outcome.

Remind people that the purpose of a system is what it does.

Then, instead of being a non-sequitur claim you're just pulling out of thin air, the conclusion is the most reasonable way to assemble the provided puzzle pieces.

[sunderwight]

Yup.

Also a lot of people having a rough time also tend to want to simplify, and sometimes aren't interested in empathizing.

Someone going well what if I just take a fucking sledgehammer to this situation and fuck anyone who gets hit by the debris if it solves this problem, do not need to hear that the sledgehammer will have lasting negative consequences for others, they need to hear that it won't solve the problem.

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

yeah, sure, it was the "power of friendship" that defeated you, and not my super cool "mega bone explosions" spell that I worked really hard on, whatever idiot

[angiepants]

This is a man loving blog btw. I know this is the man hating site and increasingly the trans man hating site but that shit stops at my borders

[abolish-the-draft]

[sabertoothwalrus]

aint it crazy how everyone is famous nowadays and yet I dont know who anyone is. there are countless people that will have more followers on instagram than the population of Sacramento and no one I know irl has ever heard of them

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.